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Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

You're reading from   Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0 Turn the right screws in ASP.NET Core to get the most out of the framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077866
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jürgen Gutsch Jürgen Gutsch
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing Logging 2. Chapter 2: Customizing App Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Customizing Dependency Injection 4. Chapter 4: Configuring and Customizing HTTPS with Kestrel 5. Chapter 5: Using IHostedService and BackgroundService 6. Chapter 6: Writing Custom Middleware 7. Chapter 7: Content Negotiation Using a Custom OutputFormatter 8. Chapter 8: Managing Inputs with Custom ModelBinders 9. Chapter 9: Creating a Custom ActionFilter 10. Chapter 10: Creating Custom TagHelpers 11. Chapter 11: Configuring WebHostBuilder 12. Chapter 12: Using Different Hosting Models 13. Chapter 13: Working with Endpoint Routing 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring endpoint routing

To learn about endpoint routing, you need to learn what an endpoint is and what routing is.

The endpoints are the parts of the app that get executed when a route maps the incoming request to it. Let's analyze this definition in a little more detail.

A client usually requests a resource from a server. In most cases, the client is a browser. The resource is defined by a URL, which points to a specific target. In most cases, the target is a web page. It could also be a mobile app that requests specific data from a JSON Web API. What data the app requests is defined in the URL.

This means that the incoming request is also defined by the URL. The executing endpoint, on the other hand, is mapped to a specific route. A route is a URL or a pattern for a URL. ASP.NET Core developers are already familiar with such a route pattern:

app.UseRouting();
app.UseAuthorization();
app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
{
    endpoints.MapControllerRoute...
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